Word: championships
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Every college athlete dreams of one thing: winning a national championship. Sophomore co-captain Caroline Vloka made that dream a reality this past Saturday at the fencing NCAA championships. Her national title in the sabre and first-team All-America honor were especially sweet because they were laced with 10-years worth of retribution...
...able to finish strong and win the bouts she needed to on the way to the national title. In the semifinals, she defeated Ohio State sophomore Margarita Tschomakova by a score of 15-10 and then went on to beat Ward by a slim two-point margin in the championship round...
...fence 23 bouts in two days,” said sophomore co-captain Noam Mills, the team’s only other first team All-America honoree, who took second place in the individual epee competition. “These bouts are taken into account for the team championship, but they also determine who will advance to the semifinals in the individual tournament… Every bout counts...
Like Vloka, Ross had come close to the championship in previous year’s tournaments but had been unable to capture it until this weekend...
...This year was an especially tough NCAA championship,” Staller said. “I think we did very well...and [it] bodes well for the future...